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Saturday Jul 18, 2009

Thanks to Byron and Lloyd, GlassFish v3 now has
a Restart Button in the Admin GUI.
Just download a recent promoted build (I used b55) and
go to the Application Server panel in the Admin console;
see the
Screenshot.

Tuesday Jan 20, 2009

This week's webinar is on Thursday, Jan 22th, 11:00 am PT.
Jane Young (and guests) will provide an overview of
ASAdmin, the GlassFish CLI console
(v2,
v3).
Asadmin enables the same functionality in the GUI console but in a format that is
often more adequate for automation.
Asadmin has bee described as "GlassFish's hidden gem"...

Slides and other material will be posted to the
Presentation Page;
as usual, we encourage your participation through questions before or during the presentation
via the companion chat.
As usual, recordings of the presentations will be made available later.

Added - Due to technical difficulties I could not host the webinar and it will be rescheduled.
It is currently penciled in for Thu, Feb 19th.

Wednesday Nov 19, 2008

GlassFish v3 Prelude
(download)
is designed for extensibility - at multiple points,
including Admin CLI, Monitoring, Deployment, Container, Configuration and Branding.
Sreeni's latest note explains how to
Extend the CLI
using the HK2 services and OSGi.

Saturday May 17, 2008

Another screencast from Anissa.
This one shows how to
Install GFv3 TP2
including the optional auto-download and install of the Administration console.
In addition to a smaller/faster download, this means we could
improve the console after shipping the main release!

Note that the screencast shows the Windows experience using the EXE
installer.
This intaller is already available in the
Promoted Folder
and will soon be moved to the
'Official' TP2 Folder.

Anissa has created a screencast showing how easy it is to add a plugin to the
GlassFish v3
administration console.
Check it out
here,
it is just 3 minutes.
If even shows how you can change one of the Java classes,
recompile,
and just reload the admin page.

Imagine the possibilities!
You can add functionality as a developer for yourself,
for your team or enterprise, or,
if you are an ISV now your application can smoothly
integrate within the GlassFish Server.

Monday Feb 11, 2008

WiseMan, the WS-Management Java implementation has now become a part of Metro (the GlassFish Web Services stack) community. WiseMan provides both client and server side APIs for building Manageable applications.

"What's the relationship to GlassFish?" you may ask. Well, by deploying the Web Services Connector for JMX in GlassFish, all the existing MBeans (such as those defined by AMX, by JSR 77, and by you) are automatically exposed as WS-Management resources. Clearly, the key feature of WiseMan is interoperability.

For the Web Services savvy, Jean-François' entry is buzzword compliant and a very good read (WS-Addressing, Push mode, security, etc...). WiseMan's homepage is at wiseman.dev.java.net. Version 1.0 requires Java SE 5+ or above and JAX-WS 2.1.1.

Wednesday Aug 22, 2007

The next GlassFish administration meeting is today
(Thu, Aug 23rd) at 8am PT.
The agenda includes starting to discuss GlassFish v3; see the
Announcement
for details.

A separate mail thread asked about
using JACL
(see JACL website)
for V3,
so that may come up in the meeting.
When looking around I noticed that
IBM is deprecating JACL
in WebSphere and instead is planning to switch to only Jython
- seems a good question to consider.

Wednesday Aug 08, 2007

Alexis has put together a nice summary of the basic concepts needed to use GlassFish v2 in a cluster profile.
These include the concepts of
domain,
cluster,
DAS and NA,
master password,
upgrading profiles,
difference between cluster and enterprise profiles
and more.

Thursday May 31, 2007

The
GlassFish v2
has 3 types of "servers":
the domain administration server, the node agent server and the instance server;
in development profile you only have the first type, but in a cluster or enterprise
profiles you can have the 3 types.

Normally you would manage these servers through
asadmin commands, but, if necessary,
you can also use specific
Start and Stop Scripts
as shown in Byron's blog.
The scripts are now supported (and - unlike previously - not used internally; there are faster ways to start/shutdown).

Sunday May 06, 2007

It is JavaOne week and there will be many posts about the conference
(and its preludes at
CommunityOne)
but I am going to also inject some general posts to balance it out a bit...

So, talking about balancing,
check out this post by Prashanth on the
LoadBalancer Administration
in GlassFish v2.
Clustering and improved administration are part of the features in the next release,
so this is very much apropos.

Monday Feb 19, 2007

GlassFish Domains are AppServer engines that can be administered separatedly.
Kedar (the GF administration lead) has a complete introduction
here
but Filippo just posted a focused and much shorter
Cheatsheet
that you may find very useful.
Check it out!